Heroic, monotesticular UKIP MEP Nigel Farage was bumped off the BBC Question Time panel at the last minute last week. Shame. That particular edition was broadcast from Middlesbrough and it would have been fascinating to hear the audience’s response to the choice things he was planning to say about the closure of their local steelworks.
Here is how he describes it in a letter:
Sir
Corus’ steelworks at Redcar, near Middlesbrough, “Teesside Cast Products”, is to be closed (”mothballed” is the euphemism). It is Britain’s last great steelworks and an essential national resource. Without it, we are at the world’s mercy.
Corus is owned by Tata Steel of India. Recently, Tata received “EU-carbon-credits” worth up to £1bn, ostensibly so that steel-production at Redcar would not be crippled by the EU’s “carbon-emissions-trading-scheme”. By closing the plant at Redcar – and not making any “carbon-emissions” – Tata walks off with £1bn of taxpayers’ money, which it will invest in its steel-factories in India, where there is no “carbon-emissions-trading-scheme”.
There’s more. The EU’s “emissions-trading-scheme” (ETS) is modelled on instructions from the “International Panel on Climate-Change” (IPCC) of the United Nations Organisation. The Chairman of the IPCC is one Dr Rajendra K.Pachauri, a former railway-engineer, who obtained this post by virtue of his being Chairman of the “Tata Energy-Research Institute” – set up by Tata Steel.
UKIP’s leader in the EU’s “parliament”, Nigel Farage, revealed these data in a speech at Strasbourg, on 10th February, and was due to appear in the BBC’s “Question-Time” programme, from Middlesbrough, on 18th February, where the closure of the Redcar-plant was inevitably discussed. Almost at the last minute, his invitation to join the “Question-Time” panel was cancelled, without explanation.
An article, on the subject, by Neil Hamilton, which was due to appear in this week’s Sunday Express, has also been “pulled”.
Yours etc
The Corus scandal has been covered before, of course, by Booker, North et al. What bothers me, though, is how remarkably little traction it has had in the MSM. The sums of taxpayers money being squandered are stupendous; the pointlessness of the exercise beyond all reason; yet somehow – a bit like the fact that thanks to EU regulations on landfill waste disposal we’re now all supposed to put up with having our stinking, rat-infested trash collected just once a fortnight – it’s being treated as yet another of those government impositions about which we’re merely supposed to shrug our shoulders and tamely accept as just another of those things.
The mighty Booker reported on another example of this at the weekend. Gordon Brown has secretly blown another £60 million of taxpayer’s money the nation can ill-afford to spend on “buying carbon credits from the Third World for the use of government buildings and other official purposes – so that our civil servants can continue to benefit from the CO2 emissions needed to keep their offices warm and lit.”
To acquaint yourself with the full grisly details read it here. Alternatively, just torture yourself gently by reading the conclusion:
Thus we pay billions of dollars to the Asian countries for the right to continue emitting CO2 and other greenhouse gases here in the West, including the £60 million contributed by British taxpayers to keep our civil servants warm. As a result we enrich a small number of people in China and India, including Maurice Strong, who now lives in exile in Beijing, having been caught out in 2005 for illicitly receiving $1 million from Saddam Hussein in the “Oil for Food” scandal. He played a key part in setting up China’s carbon exchange, to buy and sell the CDM credits administered by the UNFCCC – of which Strong himself was the chief architect.
The net result of all this trading and jiggery-pokery is that, after billions of pounds and dollars have changed hands, with a hefty commission for those bankers and other carbon traders along the way, there is no reduction in greenhouse gas emissions whatever. But at least our political class can continue to work in warm offices and fly righteously round the world on our behalf – while the rest of us foot the bill.
Meanwhile our prospective next prime minister David Cameron has come up with a whizzo new scheme to make our inflated electricity bills even more painful than before:
He said: ” We need to apply gentle social pressure on people to bring down their energy use.
“So just as they’re doing in California, we will make each energy bill come with an illustration of how much energy people’s neighbours are using in comparison to their own usage, inspiring them to consume less in competition.”
The Booker is right. With honorable exceptions – such as UKIP and, on the environment at least, the BNP – our political class seem to have absolutely no understanding of the grotesque injustices being inflicted on their electorate in the name of the non-existent threat of “Climate Change.”
What will it take, I wonder, for these imbeciles to wake up and smell the coffee? Will a hung Parliament do? Or will it have to be bloody revolution?
James – since the Telegraph refuses to accept my registration attempts, I have to respond here to your excellent tirades. You ask the “what will it take…” question. Public faith in AGW is privately eroding, but (im)moral and financial investment in AGW is so heavy and widespread that we risk seeing it dying a quiet death, leaving billions wasted and countless growth-destroying laws festering on statute books the world over (where they will be obeyed by the Anglosphere and the northern Europeans and elsewhere ignored). Getting such a large number of people to accept that they were gulled, and to take appropriate action will require something a bit more seismic than mere erosion.
I have long felt that the best hope lies in a courtroom. It doesn’t really matter who sues whom, where or why, so long as the case is good. What matters in the bigger picture is what the evidence brought to such a trial would reveal, and its capacity to inflict collateral damage on the warmistas, either in criminal law by forcing the hand of an otherwise reluctant Plod, or by creating a precedent in tort which triggers a cascade of actions.
The obstacles to successful litigation by an indvidual are many, and the temptation (if he makes any headway) to settle quietly are great, so surely the right thing to do is for all sceptics who may have been defamed or otherwise damaged by the warmistas to collude and come up with a “poster-boy” case, judging it not necessarily on the extent of damage claimed, but on its strength and the quality of evidence it will entail.
I gather the Americans are getting litigous – maybe there’s hope?
” the quality of evidence it will entail. ”
I fear that by such time this could occur in the American court system, the AGW ‘doomsdayers’ will have moved on to a threat of Anthropogenic Global Cooling.
You might like this piece in The American Thinker:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/al_gore_is_lying_low_for_good.html
I agree with TF-P.
So its come to this and correct me if I’m wrong.
We sell our steel manufacturing to Tata in India.
Indian Tata decides that there’s more money to be made by selling carbon offsets via non production of emissions.
Production switches to India where there is no regulation on emissions.
Thousands in Teesside lose their jobs.
Is Glaciergate Pachauri linked with Tata by one remove via his shell company Teri?
Do those people in the North East know the ins and outs of this blatant savaging?
Will they still tribally vote Labour after all of this?
If not who do they turn to?
Dave?
Nick?
Or the other Nick who is knocking on their door with the promise of British first?
Seems like a no brainer to me.
James… don’t forget about William M. Connolley… In the past 30 days, he has edited 1100 times in Wikipedia! Who is paying him to edit or engage in frustrating discussions 30-40 times every day??? Wmc is perhaps the biggest story going because someone has been paying him since 2004 to control what the world knows about Global Warming…
Check it out…
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=100&target=William+M.+Connolley
deepthroat… not the movie, but the man @;?D
He may not have made it to Newsnight but the EU President (un-elect)
got a full frontal Nigel Farage “barrage” all the same .
The link below was wonderful – but rather insulting…………to bank clerks !
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100027482/video-you-have-the-charisma-of-a-damp-rag-nigel-farage-tells-eu-president/
James, he’s got more balls than most and he gets my vote – your ‘revolution’ may be just
round the corner.
My ex-wife now works at Client Earth, where rich lawyers and Brian Eno salve their conscience by talking claptrap. Yet another domestic issue! I haven’t time or the inclination to do the heavy research you do Mr Delingpole but please keep it up. Well done.
markramsden.co.uk hear Martin Amis Jihad Rap at //www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PfB5QxUZyo. If you hate bearded berks or like mashed up lounge jazz
Guysyagottaseethis – wonderfully splenetic response from Willis Eschenbach to Dr Judith Curry’s latest “how do we restore trust…?” piece. Curry is a warmist, but has a conscience, and having “done a Monbiot” in the early days of Climategate, is still, unlike Moonbat, struggling to reconcile it with the state of the scientific community she finds she inhabits. She’s not quite there yet, but give her time, and be nice, if for no better reason that you will be hard put to beat WE as her scourge.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/25/judith-i-love-ya-but-youre-way-wrong/
Excellent link from Tom F-P.
I spoke last night to a mountaineering buddy of mine who lives in Hartlepool (close to Middlesbrough) and he says that the number of people who will no longer slavishly vote Labour has increased dramatically up there. The problem is they don’t trust Dave’s Tories either – and frankly who can blame them ?
At least the worm has started to turn.
There is an excellent and very measured response to the Global Warming Fraud deniers from a proper scientist in the radio broadcast to be found at:
http://itsrainmakingtime.com/2010/nilsaxelmorner/
James, I think you should consider an article (even a major article) on how the Global Warming confabulation fits into the broader scheme of things, specifically the hijacking of science by governments, UN bodies and others for political purposes. There are quite a few areas where science has been irredeemably corrupted.
An excellent academic paper on this subject titled “Science in the 21st Century: Knowledge
Monopolies and Research Cartels” was published in 2oo4 (see http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_18_4_bauer.pdf).
Also some discussion here http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=5221 and in Garth Paltridge’s book, The Climate Caper.